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? LAN 6 Vol. XII, WE RP T0( ' To Writ< 4 Adverti: It Takes All dering Good Our Stock. ^ an Immem in all ou: me: * ^ Our first shipn Millinery, Dress C S went out of stores like hoi rivine dailv. We will hav u / Special Display an( 4 of April. * List 10 yards Lawn cents. Thompson's b: Corsets. Our prii ^ Dotted Silk Tii ucutD' kj ur price 25 dozen Ladiei cents. Our price We can't menl ? gains unless we paper. Come and / Lancaster Mi f JASTI LANCA IE + I BUSY B lents of Sod 8, ilks, Etc., t cakes- New goods ; e a i Special Prices en!! i for Twenty-fiv rand new $1.0< ce 82 cents. 3sues, worth 6< 48 cents. 3 Vest, worth 1< 5 cents. don all our bai rent the who! L see us. ercantile Co sements Our Time Or s to Keep Up ST e haire had se Business r Departnts. IK El* STER, S. C., WEDNESD. I POLICE AND NED ROES BA.T TLE IN ATLANTA. Negro Stronghold Fired ant While Building Burned th< Ringleader Killed More Men Atlanta, May 17.?Four whit< men and three negroes dead W live white men and one negr< w wounded and an entire block o r buildings burned is the resul of a conflict which began lien early today between the black and police. Will Richardson who is believed to have beei half Indian and half negro, th< owner of a store on McDauie street in the suburb of Pitts burg and four other negroe brought on the trouble by re Isisting arrest and defying th officers of Fulton county an< Atlanta. I The fight between the officer \ m and the negroes occurred ii Pittsburg, a negro settlemen directly south of the city limit on McDaniel street. The officer attempted to arrest five negroe = suspected of having beatei former Policeman S. A. Kerlii nearly to death yesterday after '?noon. The negroes resiste* arrest by entrenching them i selves in a house and the figh ensued. The vicinity is thick 1; settled with small negro cabins There are outbuildings an< barns and shrubbery over th entire neighborhood which pre vides such shelter thai it wa possible to escape from hous to house and d.xlge betweei fences without being detected As soon as information of th fight between the negroes am police replied the city, wagoi loads of policemen heavily arm ed were hurried to the scene o action and Gov. Candler orderet I nut. ii -1-1 v?.v uWltVUlUCLlt U1 Lilt? sum militia. At midnight County Police man Golden heard that Kerlin'i five assailants were located in i honse on McDaniel street anc he hastened to the city and se cured a warrant for their arres from Justice Orr. Policeman Colden was joine( by Officers Ozburn and Cheshir* and accompanied by a numbe of Kerlin's neighbors, including Owen Heard, the party startec for the hiding place of the fiv< negroes, arriving at 1.30 thii morning. The house was dark, but ai the officers approached the in I mates oDened fir? ?r?rl Hwor ! Heard fell to the ground. Th< house was at once surroundet by the police and daylight wai awaited before making auothei advance. The house in whicl the negro Richardson was loca ted belonged to Annie Milburn also colored. Richardson ownec 0 the store adjoining the house Here he kept ammunition anc guns and was therefore wel prepared for a tight. ^ At 6 o'clock this morning th< group of officers who had beer 3 watching the house all nigh] approached the place and caller upon those within to surrender The answer was a volley of shots ^ and County Officer Rattle drop r?ed dfinrl- Tl-.n n f j* ??v M.wn*vatu JHU retreated some distance and from behind trees and telegrapl: * and trolley poles commenced firing into the store. In a fe^ 6 minutes the door of the hotisf was thrown open and WillKing a negro ran out and gave him self up to the officers. the house Richardson had/' i unobstructed view in threi I roctions. One block away ftp 1 man Tom Grant stepu/ his sh?Uer to fire into fjL\ IT ERF AY, MAY 21, iqo2. i : The Fin Is made witl t ing Powder. ; sweet, pure ^ i a _ A shot from the besieged house killed him before he could lire. " At the point of a rifle the negro, King, who gave himself up, j was forced to set fire to the rear of the house. When the flames g started the officers stepped out of their shelter. Again there t was a shot from the house and ' Officer Crabtree met death. Then another shot and Policeg man Ozburn fell dead. The shooting into the house became general, citizens and officers , firing together. In less than an hour the block was burned and a seatcli of the . ruins followed. In a woodshed in the rear of Richardson's store j was found a skull and the steel barrel of a riflo. It is believed that the skull represents all that is left of Richardson. is " 0 You will never wish to another dose of pills if you once try Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. I. They are easier to take and more 0 pleasant in efifeot. They oleanse the j stomach and regulate the liver and 1 bowels. For sale by J F Mackey A 1 Co. f 1 Near-by Testimony. B t The denials of torture inflicted by American soldiers in the Philippines upon the natives have s grown weaker and weaker until j they have ceased entirely and turned into defense. In the way ~ of further testimony, however, an Anderson, S. C., correspondent j of the Charleston News and Courier reports that a young man of that town, Mr. Loskoskie, who y has been serving in the Philip| pines, and has just returned home, and who has always borne a good ^ reputation for truthfulness and uprightness, says that ''the stories of the cruelties practiced upon the natives by the United States troops have not been exaggerated." He saw active service on 3 j several of the islands, witnessed 3 the administration of the water cure "a number of times," and ^ "on one occasion saw 15 natives hanged at one time, because they, would not divulge certain inforj mation." It haa come to this, that one [ who criticises the methods of warj fare pursued by the American troops in the Orient is denounced as an enemy of the array and as 3 lacking the irit of patriotism. 1 This is an aspersion and we ret sent it. It is because, not by 1 reason of, lack of pride in the . American forces on land and sea, j that well regulated Americans . cry out their protests when their t forces behave unworthily. And I what well regulated citizens of i this country can read of the com I duct of our troops in tne Philipr pines, as pictured by this young * South Carolinian, not to refer to ; too many other witnesses, and not reprobate it ? It is claimed ; tfcyh the Filipinos have tortured | ^tiean nrisonerm and if ia! cruelty with cruelty. ll suggestion, in that tPV^unt of the differ^ r .we are Chris 'RISE No. 10 -sr?r est Cake ti Royal BakAlways light, $ wholesome. tian and the Filipinos are hall barbarian ; we are therelore a? Burned to uct betttr than they. But in the particular cases con earning which we have evidence, and especially in one instance which the South Carolinian re cites, the barbarities upon the natives were not inllicled for capital crimes but because "they would not divulge certain information." The water cure, upon the general run of testimony, was administered because the victim would not tell where his rifle was or disclose the hiding place ot some of his compatriots And f here we have the evideuce ot an eye-witness that he saw fifteen natives hanged at one time? why ? Because they had tortured or killed anybody ? No ; but because they withheld information of which their executioners desired to be possessed. The record of the American soldiery in the Orient is one ot brutality and infamy ; it is a duplicate in miniature of the atrocities of the Duke of Alva in the Low Country ; and no nam1 * * uer ui ime wor(i9 can gloss it over nor any appeals to the national spirit cause it to appear less bar barous than it is.?Charlotte Observer. The Beit Prescription for.Xalar In chills and fever is a bottle of Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form No Cure, no pay. Price 60 ct*. Dr. E. S. IV!cDow, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. South Side Catawba House,) Up-Stairs. f t t { Phone W ) 0ffi.c?-#?Pen T)a> bu, ijr ( ana ,>lght Notice Lancaster Graded School. To all Whom it May Concern : Take notice that pursuant to a petition signed by ten voters and freeholders resident in Lancaster School District, we,the undersigned.Trusteee of said District, do hereby call a public meeting to be composed of all those voters who are resident in and return for taxation in said District real or personal property of the value of not less than one hundred dollars, to assemble in the Court House at Lancaster, S C., on Friday, the 30th day of May, 1002, at 4 o'clock p. m , for the purpose of electing a chairman and secretary of said meeting, five trustees of said school district, and ol determining what special tax, if any, not to exceed Ave mills, shall be levied, as the majority present shall -II ?I ?? ? ucviuv, ?> ail icai auu prrsuil&l property within said School District for the maintenance of the public schools of said District This May 18th, 1 nihil. F. MiUer. W T. Gregory. W. J. Cunningham. J. E. Taylor C T. Connors. Trustees T.ancaster School District. Ths Duty of 1'arentM. Prevention Is belter than cure, and yet a remedy like Goocb's Mexican r>yrup tor coughs, colds and consumption, It not used ?? prevent consumption by curing a cough o." cold lii the beginning can be depended on to even ?*ure after the lungs begin to tv.isie aw ?v No other remedy Is so nice to take, or r>o qui ok to cure, and mnr.j tairitllen often buy a b bottle before the old one is all used up, .10 tlost they may hare it always in the hons< . Oafj 2* cents at drug stores. K